Scientists from many disciplines, including physics, chemistry, biology, and neuroscience, contribute to the study of cognition. Cognitive psychology, the science of the human mind and of how people process information, is at the core of empirical investigations into the nature of mind and thought.
This anthology is based on the assumption that cognitive psychology is at heart empirical philosophy. Many of the core questions about thought, language, perception, memory, and knowledge of other people's minds were for centuries the domain of philosophy. The book begins with the philosophical foundations of inquiry into the nature of mind and thought, in particular the writings of Descartes, and then covers the principal topics of cognitive psychology including memory, attention, and decision making.
The book organizes a daunting amount of information, underlining the essentials, while also introducing readers to the ambiguities and controversies of research. It is arranged thematically and includes many topics not typically taught in cognition courses, including human factors and ergonomics, evolutionary psychology, music cognition, and experimental design.
The contributors include Daniel Dennett, Daniel Kahneman, Jay McClelland, Donald Norman, Michael Posner, Stephen Palmer, Eleanor Rosch, John Searle, Roger Shepard, and Anne Treisman.
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| Table of Contents |
| | Preface |
| I | | Foundations-Philosophical Basis, The Mind/Body Problem |
| 1 | | Visual Awareness
by Stephen E. Palmer |
| 2 | | Where Am I?
by Daniel C. Dennett |
| 3 | | Can Machines Think?
by Daniel C. Dennett |
| II | | Neural Networks |
| 4 | | The Appeal of Parallel Distributed Processing
by Jay L. McClelland, David E. Rumelhard, and Geoffrey E. Hinton |
| III | | Objections |
| 5 | | The Appeal of Parallel Distributed Processing
by Jay L. McClelland, David E. Rumelhard, and Geoffrey E. Hinton |
| IV | | Experimental Design |
| 6 | | Experimental Design in Psychological Research
by Daniel J. Levitin |
| V | | Perception |
| 7 | | Perception
by Phillip G. Zimbardo and Richard J. Gerrig |
| 8 | | Organizing Objects and Scenes
by Stephen E. Palmer |
| 9 | | The Auditory Scene
by Albert S. Bregman |
| VI | | Categories and Concepts |
| 10 | | Priciples of Categorization
by Eleanor Rosch |
| 11 | | Philosophical Investigations, Sections 65-78
by Ludwig Wittgensten |
| 12 | | The Exemplar View
by Edward E. Smith and Douglas L. Medin |
| VII | | Memory |
| 13 | | Memory for Musical Attributes
by Daniel J. Levitin |
| 14 | | Memory
by R. Kim Guenther |
| VIII | | Attention |
| 15 | | Attention and Performance Limitations
by Michael W. Eysenck and Mark T. Keane |
| 16 | | Features and Objects in Visual Processing
by Anne Treisman |
| IX | | Human-Computer Interaction |
| 17 | | The Psychopathology of Everyday Things
by Donald A. Norman |
| 18 | | Distributed Cognition
by Donald A. Norman |
| X | | Music Cognition |
| 19 | | Neural Nets, Temporal Composites, and Tonality
by Jamshed J. Bharucha |
| 20 | | The Development of Music Perception and Cognition
by W. Jay Dowling |
| 21 | | Cognitive Psychology and Music
by Roger N. Shepard and Daniel J. Levitin |
| XI | | Expertise |
| 22 | | Prospects and Limits of the Empirical Study of Expertise: An Introduction
by K. Anders Ericsson and Jacqui Smith |
| 23 | | Three Problems in Teaching General Skills
by John R. Hayes |
| 24 | | Musical Expertise
by John A. Sloboda |
| XII | | Decision Making |
| 25 | | Judgement under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman |
| 26 | | Decision Making
by Eldar Shafir and Amos Tversky |
| 27 | | For Those Condermned to Study the Past: Heuristics and Biases in Hindsight
by Baruch Fischhoff |
| XIII | | Evolutionary Approaches |
| 28 | | Adaptations, Exaptations, and Spandrels
by Daniel M. Buss, Martie G. Haselton, Todd K. Shackelford, April L. Bleske, and Jerome C. Wakefield |
| 29 | | For Those Condermned to Study the Past: Heuristics and Biases in Hindsight
by Baruch Fischhoff |
| XIV | | Language 1 - Language Acquisition |
| 30 | | The Invention of Language by Children: Environmental and Biological Influences
by Lila R. Gleitman and Elissa Newport |
| XV | | Language 2 - Language and Thought |
| 31 | | Languages and Logic
by Benjamin L. Whorf |
| XVI | | Language 3 - Pragmatics |
| 32 | | Logic and Conversation
by H.P. Grice |
| 33 | | Idiomaticity and Human Cognition
by Raymond W. Gibbs Jr. |
| XVII | | Intelligence |
| 34 | | In a Nutshell
by Howard Gardner |
| 35 | | A Rounded Version
by Howard Gardner and Joseph Walters |
| 36 | | Individual Differences in Cognition
by R. Kim Guenther |
| XVIII | | Cognitive Neuroscience |
| 37 | | Localization of Cognitive Operations in the Human Brain
by Michael I. Posner, Steven E. Petersen, Peter T. Fox, and Marcus E. Raichle |
| 38 | | The Mind and Donald O. Hebb
by Peter M. Milner |
| 39 | | Imagining the Future
by Michael I. Posner and Daniel J. Levitin |
| | Index |
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